Ephesians 2:10 (WEB)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Fathers and councils · 19
Athanasius of Alexandria
“But the Apostle opposes such a doctrine a little before, when he says, ‘For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus;’ and if in Christ we are created, then it is not He who is created, but we in Him; and thus the words ‘He created’ are for our sake.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For we shall no more hear, ‘In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die,’ but ‘Where I am, there ye’ shall ‘be also;’ so that we may say, ‘We are His workmanship, created unto good works.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 3; Eph. ii. 10.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For we are His workmanship, says the Apostle, created unto good works, which God afore prepared, that we should walk in them.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“In Thy Church, therefore, O our God, according to Thy grace which Thou hast accorded unto it, since we are Thy workmanship created in good works, there are not only those who are spiritually set over, but those also who are spiritually subjected to those placed over them; for in this manner hast Thou…” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For of Himself we are the workmanship,” “that maketh men of one mood to dwell in a house.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“For we are His workmanship, created not merely in Adam, but in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them: “for it is God which worketh in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast made me living well, Thou hast formed me: if by chance I do aught of good, I will rejoice in the work of Thy hands: as the Apostle saith, “For we are His workmanship, created unto good works.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment““For we are His workmanship,” saith the Apostle, “created unto good works.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“For whatever good works there be of mine, from Thee are they to me; and so they are more Thine than mine.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 8–10.
Read the whole comment“Plainly we have: but see what follows; “for we are His workmanship,” saith he.” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“For we are His workmanship, created in Jesus Christ in good works, which God hath prepared, that in them we may walk.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 8–10. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“And lest it should be thought that good works will be wanting in those who believe, he adds further: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10
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Ambrose of Milan
“Just as the works, then, are the expression of the will and power of God the Father, so are they of Christ’s, even as we read: “Created in Christ in good works;” and in the psalm: “Peace be made in Thy power;” and again: “In wisdom hast Thou made them all.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
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Leo the Great
“For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God prepared that we should walk in them.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 8–10.
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Tertullian
“…from above, to animate their union into one body with another spirit of so clear sound; and shall it not be possible for God, in the case of His own organ, to produce, by means of “holy hands,” a sublime spiritual modulation?” — editor's note: i.e. Man. There may be an allusion to Eph. ii. 10, “We are His worksmanship,” and to Ps. cl. 4.
Read the whole comment““We,” says he, “are His workmanship, created in Christ.”” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For there was not only this calamity, that we who were made for good works to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be, were turned into a den of all sorts of passions, which cruelly devour and consume…” — editor's note: Eph. ii. 10; Phil. i. 11.
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Cross-references · 24
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Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 7.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.6.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.6.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.23.